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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Wishing You a Wonderful Day

Hi Bloggers.

I'm up at Creative Expressions HQ today running some workshops. It's bound to be a fun day.

Here's today's card -

I sprayed some Graceful Mustard Ink Spray Mist onto a
piece of Cut n Dry Foam to make myself an 'ink pad'. I then spayed a little more onto my Craft Sheet and
mixed this with a little Graceful Mustard Mica Powder. I added this to my
'ink pad' and used it to stamp the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Delightful Sentiments Clear Stamp Set. I cut it out using one of the dies from Sue's St. Kitts Die Set and inked through the die with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.

I cut the next size die out of Primrose Card. I rubbed Graceful Mustard Gilding Wax over the surface. I left it to dry for a few minutes and then buffed it up using a dry wet wipe.

I stamped the Tumbling Leaves Stamp using my custom made ink pad and cut it out using the largest die in the St. Kitts die set. I inked through the die with Scattered Straw.

For the background, I ran a piece of Coconut White Card through the Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions 5 3/4 x 7 Floral Stripes Embossing Folder. I then ran my custom made ink pad around the edges.

I cut a corner out of Coconut White Card using Sue's Ornamental Corners Die Set and rubbed Graceful Mustard Gilding Wax over.

I made a flower using Sue's Cornflower Die Set - I cut 2 of 2 sizes of die out of Coconut White Card and inked using Scattered Straw adding a Small Circle Dazzler to the centre. I cut a couple of leaves out of Coconut White Card using Sue's Delicate Fronds Die Set and rubbed Graceful Mustard Gilding Wax over. I cut a couple of twirly bits out of Primrose Card using Sue's Splendid Swirls Die Set.

I assembled the card as shown adding some White Pearls and some dots of Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Pearl PVA around the edges.

Phill Martin has shows on Create & Craft today at 10am and 3pm with some new colour collections and some gorgeous new stamps. I'll be watching on catchup when I get home - hope you can join him one way or another.

Enjoy the workshops - this is when I wish I could drive and get to people's classes/demos I love today's card I don't recognise the embossing folder and love it Love the colour nice and summery What's the difference between primrose card and custard On screen they look very similar I hope CE have a stand at Ally Pally with huge stocks of stuff!

Morning Julia. Gorgeous colours today - to match the sunshine. (Nice after the snowy showers we had yesterday!) I love the twirly bits; I couldn't envision these when I saw the die sets, so thanks for the inspiration. Hope you have a good day.Ruth x

Another lovely card Julia. Must admit I have yet to try this technique but must give it a go. Am recording Phill's shows and have at last managed to watch one of Sue's, which taught me how she makes her camellia flower, so that was good.Thanks for all the hints and tips.

A summery, bright card that makes you smile just looking at it as it's so pretty and cheery. I'm warming to yellow as a theme colour for a card and you have started an obsession with the custom stamp pads! I'm acquiring distress re inkers at a great rate!